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What does haemophilia mean?

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Noun
  1. (British spelling, pathology) Any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding, usually passed from mother to son.
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In mild haemophilia, bleeding occurs only after moderately severe injury or after surgery.
To treat haemophilia he can arrange for, and supervise, substitution therapy.
Factor IX is used for treating sufferers of Christmas disease, which is a rarer and more serious form of haemophilia.
He was born with a crippling inherited disease, arthritic haemophilia.
Scientists have already reported that ten patients with severe haemophilia B have remained cured for a number of years.
For that reason society offers testing for Down's syndrome, haemophilia, cystic fibrosis, and a range of other genetic conditions.

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